Five-star forward Billy Preston has committed to Kansas, announcing his decision on ESPNU on Friday.?Preston chose the Jayhawks over USC, with Syracuse and Indiana also on his final list of four.Preston had a long and constantly changing recruitment, with different schools emerging every few months. He cut his list to four in March, with Maryland, Arizona, Kansas and USC remaining. Preston then removed Arizona and added Indiana and NC State in September. He took visits to Kansas, Syracuse, Indiana and USC, but ultimately it was a battle between Kansas and the Trojans down the stretch.Prestons family was close with the USC staff, but Kansas gained momentum after Prestons visit to Lawrence for Late Night in the Phog in late September.Preston, a 6-foot-10 combo forward from Los Angeles who plays at Oak Hill Academy (Virginia), is ranked No. 20 in the ESPN 100 for the 2017 class. 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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseballs Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooperstown.A seven-page letter to Hall president Jeff Idelson on Tuesday makes the case that the settlement agreement reached by Rose and then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti didnt include a provision that he be ineligible for election to the Hall of Fame.At the time Pete agreed to the settlement, the consequences of being placed on the ineligible list were clear and specific -- and did not include a Hall of Fame prohibition, according to the letter, signed by Roses longtime attorney Raymond C. Genco and attorney Mark Rosenbaum.The Hall of Fame changed its bylaws two years after Roses banishment to make permanently banned players ineligible for the Hall, which shut out the career hits leader as long as he remained barred from baseball.Genco is asking the Hall to amend that bylaw specifically to allow Rose to be eligible for baseball writers to elect at their discretion. He makes the point that the banishments of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for their association with casinos didnt affect their Hall status, and even Shoeless Joe Jackson had remained eligible after he was banned from the game for accepting money to throw the 1919 World Series.We believe that the institution of Baseball will be strengthened by this act of grace -- an act that would give Pete Rose the same treatment that every other Major League Baseball player and manager received throoughout the first 55 years of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the letter said.ddddddddddddHall spokesman Jon Shestakofsky said Wednesday that Idelson had not seen the letter and has not commented. In a previous statement, Idelson said,Pete Rose remains ineligible for Hall of Fame consideration, based on the Hall of Fames bylaws, which preclude any individual on baseballs ineligible list from being considered for election.New baseball commissioner Rob Manfred in December?denied the 75-year-old Roses latest petition for reinstatement, but Genco said Manfred opened the door by also stating that it wasnt Manfreds responsibility to determine whether Rose should be eligible for the Hall. Petitioning the Hall to change the rule, Genco said, was the next logical step.Genco noted that Manfred had allowed Rose to participate recently in some ceremonial activities, including the retirement of his number by the Cincinnati Reds and his induction into the Reds Hall of Fame in June.This play may only bring further scrutiny to Pete, Genco said. He may not get in. 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